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TSI Reading: Interpreting Imagery in a Poem 16 Views
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Which of the following images help the reader visualize games played in the city?
(A)"night drifts along the streets of the city"
(B)"the broken flutings of white pillars"
(C)"wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples"
(D)"dances with purple and yellow crocuses"
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Yeah okay See reading shmoop er's Here we go with
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a two part question Siri's here on this little writing
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here it's little poem called solitaire But we're going to
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do it all together when i drift along streets of
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the city and then she's down on her honeymoon with
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my mind begins to peking pierre broken floodings of white
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pillars how light and laughing my mind is when all
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the good folk have put out their bedroom candles and
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the city is still wow That is solitary that's kind
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of cool right Which of the following images help the
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reader visualize games played in the city games played in
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the city Sounds like a tv series with cougars Well
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what do you think Here We got a whole bunch
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of choices We're looking at night drifts Lynn's Well let's
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see the poem here uses visual imagery to create pictures
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in the reader's mind other than the title solitaire you
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know is a solo card game There are two phrases
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that make us think of games one is playing ball
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seeing right there We're not making this up but uh
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last this isn't an answer choice we've got to keep
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looking the other reference to games is dice cups in
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the pagan temples and like pagan meaning like there no
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gods sort of but many gods But i read the
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word well dicer used in all kinds of entertaining past
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times from yeah see teo backgammon toe craft you know
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so we don't need to know exactly what kind of
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gambling was going on in the temples We just know
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that the answer See their rot dice cups in pagan
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temples that's the right answer and the others well they
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all contribute to the poems vivid imagery but they don't
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divert us with tales of gleeful games So that's it
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The answer is c roll the dice baby snake eyes
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